The radical right in Switzerland : continuity and change, 1945-2000 / Damir Skenderovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skenderovic, Damir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--Switzerland--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Right-wing extremists--Switzerland--History--20th century.

Right-wing extremists.

Switzerland--Politics and government--1945-.

Switzerland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss exceptionalism, and excluding the Swiss radical right from cross-national research. His book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the radical right in Switzerland since the end of the Second World War and therefore fills a significant gap in our knowledge. It examines the role that parti

Contents:

The concept of the radical right

Success conditions and organisational variation in Switzerland

An early precursor : the movement against overforeignization in the 1960s and 1970s

Outsiders in the party system : fringe parties in the 1980s and 1990s

Entering the mainstream : the emergence of the new SVP in the 1990s

A supplier of ideology : the new right in the German-speaking part of Switzerland

An intellectual elite : the new right in the French-speaking part of Switzerland

At the margins of society and politics : the subculture of the extreme right.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

version imprimée

ISBN:

9786612628047

9781282628045

1282628046

9781845459482

1845459482

OCLC:

645101959